Engineering synthetic recursive pathways to generate non-natural small molecules

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 518-526

  Felnagle, Elizabeth A ^a   Chaubey, Asha ^a,b   Noey, Elizabeth L ^a   Houk, Kendall N ^a   Liao, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; 2 OXOACID; ACETYL COENZYME A; CARBON; ENZYME; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSINOLATE; ISOPRENOID; METHYLTHIOALKYLMALATE SYNTHASE; NATURAL PRODUCT; POLYKETIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOENGINEERING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84861322005     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.959     Document Type: Review

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